IMPACT

Project results

Building on a series of successful ITEA projects going back to 2010, IMPACT takes the healthcare domain to the next level of data intelligence, by incorporating medical imaging data into data lakes and by automating labourintensive processing steps like image segmentation. By doing so, patient and imaging data could be efficiently used for diagnosis and personal treatment planning, which traditionally involve large amounts of manual work.

IMPACT addressed these real-world clinical challenges in three uses-cases:

• Cardiac treatment: The development of FEops’ HEARTguide, a simulation tool for virtual device deployment, revolutionised preoperative planning.
• Brain oncology: The project accelerated image acquisition, segmentation, and treatment planning.
• Liver oncology: Robotic-assisted control shows promising results for the future with e.g. real-time motion compensation for breathing.

By introducing Philips’ efficiency dashboards integrating multiple data sources, NewCompliance’s automatic performance improvement analysis, and Barco’s application-agnostic multi-modality display system which calibrates multiple image modalities according to the clinical case, the project successfully streamlined operations at various levels, from the operating table to entire hospital departments.

Exploitation

Overall, IMPACT has demonstrated remarkable success in improving time efficiency, accuracy, and overall healthcare workflows, cutting procedure times by 30%, segmentation planning by 50% and reducing MRI acquisition times to 6-8 minutes. Breathing motion compensation has also contributed to better needle placement precision, reducing the need for additional iterations. Moreover, workflow optimisation has been enhanced through innovations such as video-based tracking technology that maintains patient privacy through automatic face-blurring, as well as advanced 3D models that facilitate real-time segmentation, ultimately improving robotic-assisted surgery effectiveness.

IMPACT has already begun real-world exploitation, securing a foothold in the rapidly expanding healthcare IT market, valued at approximately USD 280.25 billion.

The 25 new products, services and systems include Quantib's CE-certified micro-bleeding detection and SyntheticMR’s improved MR quantification method, both of which have demonstrated compatibility with the major MRI imaging equipment vendors.

FEops experienced major growth through a 2,000-patient contract, a 700% increase in LAAO procedure use, and nearly doubling its workforce since the start of the IMPACT project.

Swedish SME Inovia has extended their data lake towards medical imaging data, thereby integrating information which was siloed or stored in different formats into one data source.

For Philips, the results of the IMPACT project have found a continuation in new collaborative projects such as ASSIST and IWISH, with the aim to with the aim to integrate the results in the Philips Azurion imaging platform.

At Barco, the outcomes of the ITEA IMPACT project have been successfully translated into advanced functionalities that enhance both the Barco Nexxis platform and the Intuitive Workflow Tools (IWT).